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Nielsen Is Now Measuring Online TV Viewers

Nielsen Is Now Measuring Online TV Viewers

By Josh Wolford April 30, 2013

Nielsen, the long-time leader in TV audience measurements, is taking their methodology online. Today, the company announced a pilot program for the Nielsen Digital Program Ratings which will track TV content viewed online. The pilot starts with a handful of …

Asian Americans the Most Positive Toward Social Ads Asian Americans the Most Positive Toward Social Ads

According to a report from Nielsen, your susceptibility to and tolerance of social media advertising is tied to your ethnicity. Nielsen looked at interactions with social ads and found that Asian-American consumers are much more likely to react positively, all …

Nielsen Stats Show Americans Love Social Media Nielsen Stats Show Americans Love Social Media
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As a country, we are obsessed with liking, sharing, tweeting, and pinning. Seriously obsessed. Nielsen has just published their Social Media Report for 2012 and the numbers are staggering. According to Nielsen, Americans spent a total of 121.1 billion minutes …

Kids Are Dreaming of an iChristmas Kids Are Dreaming of an iChristmas

If you’re wondering what to get your kid this holiday season and want to go the electronics route, you probably can’t go wrong with an Apple product. That’s the takeaway from a recent Nielsen study into the wishlists of children. …

Nielsen Acquires Brand Metrics Measurement Platform Nielsen Acquires Brand Metrics Measurement Platform

Today, Nielsen, the ratings and research people, announced they have definitive plans to acquire, Vizu, an online advertising performance meter and optimizer. This acquisition is part of Nielsen’s recent commitment to cross-platform advertising measurement. Vizu’s unique solutions will be integrated …

Funny Ads Are More Appealing to Consumers Funny Ads Are More Appealing to Consumers

Despite less than ideal economic conditions, consumers are spending money like crazy and if you hope to capture some of that revenue than you have to advertise. One question you might ask is, “How can I invest the least and …

Nielsen Says Younger Users Will Adopt 4G Networks Nielsen Says Younger Users Will Adopt 4G Networks

This probably comes as no surprise, but consumers under the age of 34 in the United States are the most likely to adopt 4G technology. From the first quarter in 2011 to the first quarter in 2012, the popularity of …

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It’s bad news for advertisers and television studios alike. Nielsen says many people just aren’t watching the old boob tube anymore. An interesting metric for Nielsen to record, the number of people who watch television at least once a month, …

Nielsen Reveals Top Online US Brands & Travel Sites Nielsen Reveals Top Online US Brands & Travel Sites

Nielsen is always slaving away to find out what’s hot and what the latest trends tell us about consumer behavior. This time they were looking at who the top online brands were in the United States. They also examined who …

Nielsen and Google AdWords Study Younger TV Viewers Nielsen and Google AdWords Study Younger TV Viewers

Google and Nielsen have partnered up to do some research into people’s television watching habits. What they found was that there’s a significant portion of the population who doesn’t spend that much time watching TV. About 31% of people age …

How We’re Using Our Mobile Devices [Nielsen Study] How We’re Using Our Mobile Devices [Nielsen Study]

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AOL Guarantees They Will Deliver to Clients AOL Guarantees They Will Deliver to Clients

AOL will be partnering with Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings to reach their target audience more efficiently. AOL announced today that it will offer marketers guaranteed audience delivery for online video advertising by implementing Nielsen’s frequency and gross rating point (GRP) …

Obama Trounces GOP Candidates In Site Visitors Obama Trounces GOP Candidates In Site Visitors

Everyone’s talking about how this election is the first true “social media” election, and it’s true that 2012 will probably see the most attempts at these types of connections from candidates to voters than ever before (way more the 2008). …

Women Make Up The Majority Of Bloggers Women Make Up The Majority Of Bloggers

Of all days, today being International Women’s Day, a timely study was released today by NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, revealing that women make up the majority of bloggers. NM Incite tracked over millions blogs from around the world to …

Tablets vs. Smartphones in America Tablets vs. Smartphones in America

New research from Nielsen has found that smartphone and tablet owners from the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany are more apt to make online purchases on their PCs after viewing ads on their mobile devices than Americans. Italians were the …

The DVR Is Slowly Taking Over Television The DVR Is Slowly Taking Over Television
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As television and devices that take advantage of our screen time continue to evolve, so does our utter obsession with using TV grow. Nielsen posted on its blog a study the group recently conducted that looked at what Americans have …

Nielsen: Smartphones Are For The Young, Wealthy Nielsen: Smartphones Are For The Young, Wealthy

Smartphones are rapidly replacing feature phones in the pockets of Americans, and